A-separate-peace Quote by John Knowles

“I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.”

— Cora Pearl

“Happiness was a shield that veiled me not only from the hardships of the world but also from the real me. When darkness crept…

— Alka Dimri Saklani, Beyond Secrets

“Now that I have made peace with the imperfections, I no longer look around for happiness. I found the eternal happiness that has always…

— Arcilia Mankoai Mothae

“is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it,”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“At my very lowest, just when I believed unhappiness would eat me alive, I surrendered. I didn't suddenly become happy all at once; it…

— Robin Schwarz

“...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty…

— Natalie Brenner

“I was operating on the unspoken assumption that my inner world would be filled with life, peace, and joy once my external world was…

— John Ortberg

“(the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots of peace,…

— Charles Bukowski

“the deep and personal knowledge that my circumstances do not dictate my happiness or joy.”

— Aaron Kennard

“But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.”

— Franz Kafka